| Content | Four assessments:
- Reading Comprehension
- Listening Comprehension
- Decoding
- ‘You as a Reader’ Survey
| Three assessments:
- Decoding: Real Words
- Decoding: Fake Words
- Fluency
| Start – two assessments:
- Decoding and Segmenting: Real words
- Decoding: Tricky Words
Grow and Complete – one assessment:
- Decoding and Segmenting (real words)
| Three assessments:
- Decoding: Read Words
- Decoding: Fake Words
- Fluency
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| Adaptive | No | Decoding: Real Words
and Fluency – Yes
Decoding: Fake Words – No
| No | Decoding: Real Words
and Fluency – Yes
Decoding: Fake Words – No
|
| Reading ages | No | Yes, up to 12 years for Decoding: Real Words
and Fluency
| No | Yes, up to 12 years for Decoding: Real Words and Fluency |
| Standardised score | No | Yes, for Decoding: Real Words
and Fluency
| No | Yes, for Decoding: Real Words and Fluency |
| Length | - Reading Comprehension: 15 mins
- Listening Comprehension: 15 mins
- Decoding – 5 mins
- You as a Reader’ Survey: 10 mins
Total length: 45 mins
| Decoding: Real Words
and Fluency: 7 mins
Decoding: Fake Words: 5 mins
Fluency: 3 mins
Total length: 15 mins
| Total length: 3 mins | Decoding: Real Words
and Fluency: 7 mins
Decoding: Fake Words: 5 mins
Fluency: 3 mins
Total length: 15 mins
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| Frequency | Recommended three times a year | As often as needed | At the end of each unit | Completed at the midpoint and endpoint of each unit |
| Test delivery | - Online – whole class/cohort
- Students require individual log-in codes
- Adult-led – teacher controls access and provides scripted guidance to students throughout assessments
| - Online – 1:1
- No log in codes necessary
- Launched and led by teacher
| - Online – 1:1
- No log in codes necessary
- Launched and led by teacher
| - Online – 1:1
- No log in codes necessary
- Launched and led by teacher
|
| Marking | Answers marked automatically as students progress through the assessment. | Answers marked automatically as students progress through the assessment. | Answers marked automatically as students progress through the assessment. | Answers marked automatically as students progress through the assessment. |
| Reporting | Live reports:
Group student report contains:
- percentage scores for Reading Comprehension, Listening Comprehension and Decoding.
Static reports:
Initial Screening report contains:
- outline of each assessment
- cohort data on Listening Comprehension, Reading comprehension and Decoding
- distribution of scores for Listening Comprehension, Reading comprehension and Decoding
- list of students who didn’t meet the thresholds for each assessment.
Leadership (Reading for Pleasure) report contains:
- overview of a cohort’s attitude to reading; list of most popular genres; data about student access to books at home and library membership; information about who students talk to about reading
- list of students identified as: struggling with reading; not struggling but who don’t like reading; not having access to texts at home.
| Reports available:
Group student report contains:
- standardised score, attainment level and reading age for decoding real words.
- percentage accuracy of decoding fake words
- word count per minute, standardised score attainment level and reading age for fluency
- identification of whether phonics intervention is needed and at what level.
Student GPC Heatmaps contain:
- identification of the specific GPCs individual students are/aren’t secure with.
| Reports available:
Group student report contains:
- percentage accuracy of decoding fake words
- percentage accuracy segmenting real words
- percentage accuracy decoding tricky words (Start pathway only)
Individual student summary report contains:
- a summary of each student’s Ongoing Assessments, showing percentage accuracy for each assessment section.
Student GPC Heatmaps (group and individual) contain:
- identification of the specific GPCs individual students are/aren’t secure with
| Reports available:
Group student report contains:
- standardised score, attainment level and reading age for decoding real words.
- percentage accuracy of decoding fake words
- word count per minute, standardised score attainment level and reading age for fluency
- identification of whether phonics intervention is needed and at what level.
Group Student Progress report:
- shows progress of students at the midpoint and endpoint of each unit
- compares progress made from the baseline of the student’s Diagnostic Assessment.
Student GPC Heatmaps (group and individual) contain:
- identification of the specific GPCs individual students are/aren’t secure with
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